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Live Play Data

Shadowspear

{1} · Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Theros Beyond Death (THB)
4%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
7051
Decks Running
2829
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
82%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1418
16%
T1
10%
T2
9%
T3
9%
T4
12%
T5
37%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 38
On curve 16% (222 / 1418 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

7052 brought · 1940 players
Brought to game
7052
Ever drawn
1728
Reached battlefield
1418
Still on board at game end
1119

Once cast, 79% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1269) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=4521).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=270).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1877 instances
2.9%
Library
59.6%
Battlefield
19.4%
Graveyard
5.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Shadowspear card

Shadowspear

{1}
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}
Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.